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There are some inconsistencies in the various accounts I've seen. I regret and apologize for having written what I did.

It was my understanding (from news accounts I'd heard) at the time I posted that that he was still alive when they took him off the mountain. The newly posted article confirms that was the case. It is extremely unlikely that a request to assist with a body recovery would have been made under...

If you were one of the people who declined to help and you're reading this, please post your picture here. That way we'll know not to interfere in your adventure if we find you lying on the trail some day.

Donewithit. :D

You just did and reported on the trip I told my wife we should take. Thanks so much for posting! EDIT: That unknown structure looks very much like a waterfowlers' hunting blind to me.

A sound approach to the boars. They are nothing to fool around with.

My wife just walked in reading this quote from one of our favorite authors: "Black bears rarely attack. But here’s the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much...

A timely reminder. I once watched a very experienced conservation coordinator take a tumble on rocks she had traversed daily for a decade. A few minutes later I did the same, a bit farther down the trail.

This point has been discussed ad nauseum in the various threads on this matter. There is no list and there is no minimum degree of negligence. Fish and Game is not the final arbiter of negligence, only the instigator of a possible legal action attempting to establish it if the state takes the...

"'Just floating down the Yukon River is kind of boring to me,' he said." Are you listening, Nessmuk? ;) Austrian completes rugged – perhaps unprecedented – overland journey from North Slope to Cook Inlet

When I was a kid in Minnesota, there was a bounty on wolves. The first one I saw was lying dead in a farmer's yard. Fishers were the stuff of legends, and I never met anyone who had seen one until I saw my first one about twenty-five years ago on the MN-ON border. Fast forward to the new...

This article from 2011 pretty much sums up the state of things: Study of Black Bears Finds It’s Not the Mamas That Should Be Feared the Most

Herrero's original edition cites four cases where people were injured (six people in all) by female black bears with cubs. Does he report more later? FWIW, to my knowledge this is the closest the hilariously nicknamed Mr. Grylls has ever come to a bear in the wild: Latest TV fake scenes -...

The risk of harm from a charging black bear mother has been shown to be negligible. This is from an earlier edition of Herrero's work. Maybe Doug or someone else can provide the updated reference. "Sudden encounters with black bears, even mothers with cubs, almost never lead to injury -...

This is a recent, classic example of what triggers an attack by a surprised brown/grizzly and how to survive it. Woman mauled by brown bear on Cordova hiking trail describes attack

A surprised black bear is virtually never a dangerous bear, even a sow with cubs that takes a run at you. A dangerous black bear is a bear that made up its mind to eat you while you were unaware of its presence. This is the bear that won't stop coming and that you must fight with everything at...

I've used it on a boonie style hat to good effect. Haven't tried it yet on anything else, but this week's weather and this thread will probably motivate more trials.

Bear bag: What you use to keep your food safe from squirrels until the bear shows up.

And the load carried and the terrain traversed. Some "hiking" is far closer to "walking" in terms of the challenges presented.

Limmer Ultra-Lights weigh 3.5 pounds a pair and nobody was ever burdened wearing them. Limmer Light-Weights similarly weigh 3.5 pounds per pair and many, many hikers and backpackers swear by them, including my wife. The latter are grossly mis-named in terms of their capabilities. Now, when you...